If farmers can close the loop and recycle the water they use to minimise pesticide/fertiliser run off, if its cost effective and the energy to drive this is low carbon. This looks like the future of farming

I once watched a series of documentaries on the theme of the inherent unpredictability (and hence the impossibility of controlling) organic life. So, if I've understood correctly, many of these Dutch farmers run a very real risk of bring eaten by a dinosaur.

Can’t help but think that that is gonna go horribly wrong. With such a restricted ecosystem that you’ll have huge pandemics, or weird blooms of growth, then mass extinction, or something weird.

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It's been nearly twenty years since they took their agriculture in this direction, and the Netherlands is still the 2nd biggest agricultural exporter in the world. It's precisely because they have more controlled conditions than conventional agriculture that they don't get that kind of thing happening. How much longer and to what degree does the Netherlands have to continue succeeding as they do before your concerns are allayed?

Tbh NoXion I dunno what the hell I’m talking about, it was just a passing question/concern. I’ll bow to your greater knowledge with this one!

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I'm not sure that I do know more about this than you; I was just wondering what your concerns were based on. I do know that in general, monocultural approaches to agriculture are not very robust, but I don't think that's the focus here. The Dutch approach appears to compatible with a wide variety of different crops.

I like it. We should be doing more of it here instead of importing so much.

I see dozens of flower delivery trucks, all Dutch, bringing flowers into London every day. I see no reason why they can't setup some comparable size operation to grow the same stuff, food, flowers etc. without having to import so much by road and sea freight.

I like it. We should be doing more of it here instead of importing so much.

I see dozens of flower delivery trucks, all Dutch, bringing flowers into London every day. I see no reason why they can't setup some comparable size operation to grow the same stuff, food, flowers etc. without having to import so much by road and sea freight.

I like it. We should be doing more of it here instead of importing so much.

I see dozens of flower delivery trucks, all Dutch, bringing flowers into London every day. I see no reason why they can't setup some comparable size operation to grow the same stuff, food, flowers etc. without having to import so much by road and sea freight.

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With regard to the flowers Holland imports and auctions flowers from all over the world.The Dutch trucks delivering flowers in London are just as likely to have flowers produced with child labour in Colombia as actual Dutch flowers.

With regard to the flowers Holland imports and auctions flowers from all over the world.The Dutch trucks delivering flowers in London are just as likely to have flowers produced with child labour in Colombia as actual Dutch flowers.